odds

odds Definition

odds (ädz)

Archaic inequalities
Now Rare difference or amount of difference
difference in favor of one side over the other; advantage
an equalizing advantage given or received in betting, based on a given bettor's assumed chance of winning and expressed as a ratio a winning bettor who got odds of 3 to 1 is paid three times as much as he or she bet

odds Idioms

at odds

in disagreement; quarreling

by (all) odds

by far; unquestionably

(the) odds are

the likelihood is

odds Synonyms

An advantage
allowance, edge, benefit, difference, superiority, overlay*, square odds*, place money*, show money*; see also advantage 1.
A probability
likelihood, favor, superiority, chances; see probability.

disagreeing, at variance, discordant; see quarreling.

odds Quotes

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

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